Portable eield-feitce



'UTTED sTATEs PATENT oEEroE.

L. S. ROBISON, OF GYPSUM, NEW YORK.

PORTABLE FIELD-FENCE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 20,005, dated April 20, 18,58.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, L. S. RoBIsoN, of

` Gypsum, in the county of Ontario and State of New York, have made andinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fences, of which thefollowing is a full and accurate description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

In said drawing my improved fence is shown in perspective.

The nature of this invention consists in a certain method ofconstructing a fence in panels whereby the fence is rendered economical,portable, and readily and firmly put up without the necessity of sinkingposts or using clamps of any kind.

The stability of the fence is secured by its being put up after themanner known as the serpentineor worm fence; and the firmness andsolidity of the whole is attained by causing each panel to lock into thenext one in the following manner: Across the end of each panel isfastened a cross bar B and beyond this cross bar each alternatehorizontal bar projects as seen in the drawing. Those bars however whichproject at one end of the panel do not project beyond lthe cross bar Bat the opposite end; but each horizontal bar alternating with those inthe first set does project and ends as does the first in a projection ec, which may be formed simply of a block of wood nailed on. The separatepanels being thus constructed the fence is put together as follows: Asonly the alternate bars project beyond the end crossbarsalternate spaceswill be left to receive the projecting ends of the bars of the nextpanel. These two sets of projecting bars being then crossed and passedthrough each other as seen in the drawing the two panels are drawn asnear into a straight line as posj sible; when the projecting blocks (e)on the ends of the projecting bars'will catch on the cross bars B B7 andthe fence will be rendered rm and secure. Other panels being added anylength of fence may be put up in a very short time.

The great advantages of thisl form of fence are its cheapness-therebeing but` very little lumber used and that of the cheapest quality; itsportability; the ease with which it may be built up*there being no postholes to be dug and no clamps used; and lastly its stability andsecurity when up. What I claim therein as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent is My method of constructing a fence which will beportable and easily put up by means of the panels constructedsubstantially as described with the cross bars (B) and the blocks (e, e)on the end of the projecting horizontal bars.

L. S. ROBISON. Witnesses:

JOHN PHIN, L. Hose.

